Temperature-preserving bottle-cover.



No.. 704,972. Patanted-luly 5,1902.

F. T. GRIFFITH.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEFIcE.

FREDERICK r. GRIFFITH, or LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

TEM PERATU RE-PRESERVING BOTTLE-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 704,972, dated. July 15, 1902. Application filed July 5,1901. Serial No. 67,240. (No model.)

a convenient cover which can be easily puton and taken off a bottle and which will retain the same temperature of the contents While the same is being served as it has when put in the cover and which provides a convenient means for handling the bottle.

In serving wines, such as champagne, it is very desirable that the wine be served cold. To thatend the wine in the bottle is put on ice, and when served it-is usually wrapped in a napkin to retain as near as possible the temperature which it had when taken off the ice. This modeof handling the bottle is very crude and unsatisfactory, as the napkin will slip on the bottle and sometimes the bottle will fall and break, and it is very difficult to so wrap it that the temperature is retained. With my improved bottle-cover these dithoulties are overcome.

In the drawings Ihave illustrated three different forms of covers.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my cover inclosing a bottle. Fig. 2 is a view with the cap removed and the top portion partly open. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line 5 5 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrow. 7

In the drawings, A is the body of my bottle-cover, cup-shaped form, into which the bottle B is placed. It is provided with a bandle A. The upper or neck portion of the cover is divided into two equal parts 0 and O, which are connected to the body portion by hinges]) and D. These portions are provided with projecting flanges c, which make a lap-joint with the body. Where these sections come together, they are tongue-andgrooved to make a tight joint. Part 0 is provided with a spring-catch E, which springs over stud F on part 0 and holds the two sections from separating when the cap G is taken off to permit the liquor to be poured from the bottle, cork H being first removed. The interior of the cover, both the body and the top portions, is coated with any heat-insulating material I, such as the heat-insulating paint described in the patent issued to Jacob Hommel December 18, 1900, No. 664,154, or it may be lined with any heat-insulating fabric, such as asbestos-cloth, flannel, (be. By this construction it will be seen that beer, wines, liquors, or other beverages in glass bottles may belkept either coldor warm during the time they are being used at table and. the liquids may be poured from the bottles conveniently and with ease and less liability of spilling.

The cover is made to fit any sized bottle and of any suitable material. I prefer aluminium on account of its light weight and beauty. My cover is alsoadapted for use on kegs, barrels, and other liquid-receptacles, the cover being of a suitable form.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

l. A bottle cover or casing comprising a cupshaped body or lower portion, a pair of oppositely-arr'anged portions constituting the neck of the casing when together hinged to the top of the body upon opposite sides, and a removable cap adapted to cover and surround the upper ends of said portions when together.

2. A bottle cover or case, lined with a heatnon-conducting material and comprising a lower cup-shaped body a pair of portions con- I stitnting the neck of the case hinged upon opposite sides of the body and provided with flanges upon their lower edges to lap over the upper edge of the body, catches to hold the portions together, and a cap to fit over the upper ends of the portions.

' 3. Abottle cover or case,comprisinga lower portion or body provided with a handle, a neck formed in two equal portions each of which are hinged upon opposite sides of the body and adapted to swing outward to admit a bottle to the body, said portions being. provided with tongue-and-groove edges, catches to hold the portions together, and a cap to fit over them when together.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name this 28th day of June, 1901.

' FREDERICK T. GRIFFITH.

Witnesses:

G- E. HARPHAM, M. S. IIIGLEALZN. 

